The Berlin airlift begins.
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AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY
8 December 1938 – German aircraft carrier ´Graf Zeppelin´ is launched
On 8th December 1938, the only German aircraft carrier ´Graf Zeppelin´ was launched in Kiel. After the Nazis came to power in Germany, expansion of the Kriegsmarine (the German Navy) became one of the priorities […]
MILITARY AVIATION
Green light for Germany to buy sixty CH-47 heavy-lift helicopters
On 5th July, the office of German Ministry of Defence announced that budget committee of Bundestag, the German parliament, finally approved the purchase of sixty heavy light CH-47F Chinook rotorcraft. It is supposed that the […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
MX Aircraft MXS-R
The MX Aircraft MXS-R (c/n 2, N540XS), flew by Mikaël Brageot during the 2017 edition of the Red Bull Air Race, Lausitzring, September 2017. The Australian aviation manufacturer MX Aircraft was established in 2001, following […]